YES! Hooray for Saint Jordan Gross. He's the ultimte team player who not only deserveds a statue but will probably use what little money we forced him to take to feed starving children. (I heard he wanted to play for free but Jerry wouldn't allow it.)

So which is it? A 3 year contract extension or a reworked 1 year deal? Because if it's just a one year deal it doesn't make sense that he would restructure or even help the team out at all. Then it doesn't make sense from the Panther side because it hurts them more next year then if he would've stayed on his original contract.

Where before cutting him next year would've saved the team around 8 million with a very small cap hit, now he doesn't really save the team anything at all next year and the team has a cap hit close to 6 million.

So many numbers being thrown around...I wonder if this causes any outstanding bonuses pre-extension to be amortized over the new contract length.

Yas seems to think otherwise, the 4.9 cap hit he listed comes from the now $1 million base + $1 million signing bonus from previous deal + $2 million option bonus from previous deal + $0.9 million amortized from signing bonus on new deal.

If my math is right...Gross' earnings this season drop from $8.7 million to $5.5 million, certainly commendable. All the while creating $6.8 million (11.7-4.9) in cap space this year.

It's funny how some people were worried about the cap because of the Gettleman hire. And he's proved to be a genius compared to Hurney (who was considered a cap guy).

in fairness....restructuring Gross and cutting Gamble are the type no brainers that Pat Y and Person could figure out.

So many numbers being thrown around...I wonder if this causes any outstanding bonuses pre-extension to be amortized over the new contract length.

Yas seems to think otherwise, the 4.9 cap hit he listed comes from the now $1 million base + $1 million signing bonus from previous deal + $2 million option bonus from previous deal + $0.9 million amortized from signing bonus on new deal.

If my math is right...Gross' earnings this season drop from $8.7 million to $5.5 million, certainly commendable. All the while creating $6.8 million (11.7-4.9) in cap space this year.

and leaves us without a LT in 2014. I would assume this is Gross' way of saying one more year and I'm done.